For the Unix test 2002-02 we (av-test) have compared 12 programs under Suse Linux 6.3/7.3 and Red Hat Linux 7.1 using about 230 criteria.

This includes a test of these and other issues:
-Virus scanner and virus guard
-Virus detection ITW and Zoo, false positives
-Support of archive- and file formats
-Scan of runtime-compressed files
-Functional range of the scanner and guard
-Update possibilities and report file

For the Unix test 2002-03 we(av-test) have compared 4 programs under FreeBSD 4.4, 2 products under OpenBSD 3.0 and 3 scanners under Solaris 8 (Sparc) using more than 190 criteria.

This includes a test of these and other issues:
-On-Demand virus scanner
-Virus detection ITW and Zoo, false positives
-Support of archive- and file formats
-Scan of runtime-compressed files
-Functional range of the scanner
-Update possibilities and report file

Technodrome - I am still rather new to this forum. However, I have noticed your many informative and helpful posts in this category, and others. Your posts all have lots of views, but many of them go uncommented.

I for one would like you to know that I deeply appreciate your work here.